In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial, we’ll transform a rough sketch of the SCAR from Fortnite into a slick and smooth graphic. We’ll go through the entire process of creating the shapes, refining the shapes, rounding corners, punching out holes, adding texture, adding scratches, building out highlights and shadows to give our flat shapes some depth and dimension, and we’ll cover a ton of Illustrator tools and general technique I use when approaching a project like this! I hope you enjoy it!

Lock up the strokes group and select all the other grouped shapes and duplicate them

Set them all to the same color and merge them all together and apply a 10pt outer-aligned stroke, black, with rounded corners and ends. Also, get rid of any effects applied to this via the Appearance Panel.

Drag this outer stroke the the bottom of the layer stack.

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Nathaniel Dodson: I am a young web designer and commercial photographer specializing in music, business, and athlete portraiture. I am a young and energetic individual who has been working in the design and creative field since I first started dabbling with Photoshop in year 2000.